DICE has announced on its official Battlefield Blog that the PC versions of Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s co-op Onslaught mode have been chucked.
“There comes a time when we as a studio have to choose where to best put our efforts. At DICE we’re dedicated to taking care of our products after launch, and also hell bent on building new, innovative and high quality games,” writes the company’s general manager, Karl Magnus Troedsson.
“In my day to day work, I look at our release schedule and the studio’s capacity, weighing them against our wild ambitions to create awesomeness. I often need to make hard calls regarding where we put the studio’s focus. Part of the challenge is to balance work on the new against the already shipped, prioritizing the amount of energy spent on the known franchises and the time spent on developing something entirely new.
“This is one of those cross roads where I need to make a hard decision. While we’ll continue supporting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and previous games, it’s time to look ahead to the next giant leap for DICE – the release of Battlefield 3, powered by the mighty Frostbite 2 engine. Our goal is crystal clear: we’re going to build the best Battlefield game ever, and we’ll do whatever it takes to make this the biggest launch in DICE’s history.”
He promises that “some exciting news” is due to drop sometime soon, however.
Is anybody surprised? Didn’t think so. Battlefield 1943 fell off the radar over a year ago already, and I’m not sure anybody ever cared about Onslaught mode, anyway.
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